{"id":54744,"date":"2025-07-03T09:38:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/iran-closes-central-western-airspace-to-international-transit-flights\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T08:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:57:34","slug":"iran-closes-central-western-airspace-to-international-transit-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/iran-closes-central-western-airspace-to-international-transit-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran closes central, western airspace to international transit flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision was made following the approval of the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran and in view of the security and safety assessments under the country&#8217;s present circumstances, spokesman of the Iranian Roads and Urban Development Ministry Majid Akhavan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the suspension of domestic and foreign flights to and from airports in Iran&#8217;s northern, southern and western parts was extended until 14:00 local time (1030 GMT) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He added the country&#8217;s eastern airspace, which had been reopened on June 29 to domestic and international flights, would remain open.<\/p>\n<p>Iran on Saturday reopened its airspace in central and western areas to international transit flights.<\/p>\n<p>The country closed its airspace on June 13 following Israeli airstrikes on Tehran and other areas. After a 12-day aerial conflict, the two countries achieved a ceasefire on June 24.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-90217 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/9414561-11-2025-07-5ee1230a477098922123f68bed2d8d69-16x9.jpg\" alt=\"Iran on Wednesday announced the closure of its airspace in the country&#039;s central and western parts to international transit flights after having reopened it five days ago.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran on Wednesday announced the closure of its airspace in the country&#8217;s central and western parts to international transit flights after having reopened it five days ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000090218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000090218,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/9414561-11-2025-07-5ee1230a477098922123f68bed2d8d69-16x9.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/9414561-11-2025-07-5ee1230a477098922123f68bed2d8d69-16x9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/9414561-11-2025-07-5ee1230a477098922123f68bed2d8d69-16x9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/9414561-11-2025-07-5ee1230a477098922123f68bed2d8d69-16x9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/9414561-11-2025-07-5ee1230a477098922123f68bed2d8d69-16x9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/9414561-11-2025-07-5ee1230a477098922123f68bed2d8d69-16x9.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000090218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54744"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54744"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}